The Image of the Tapster in England and Bohemia.
- Author / Editor
- Dienstbier, Jan.
The Image of the Tapster in England and Bohemia.
- Published
- Peter Brown and Jan Čermák, eds. England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023), pp. 168-80; 6 b&w illus.
- Description
- Provides context for the link between death and the tapping of a barrel in RvP, 3892-94, and for the relationship between the Pardoner and Kit the Tapster in the prologue to the "Tale of Beryn," mentioning other English analogues and describing contemporaneous visual analogues (especially wall-painting) from Bohemia and nearby central European countries.
- Alternative Title
- England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations